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Static Email: sofmac@gmail.com Sofus Attila Macskassy Principal Scientist Fetch Technologies, Inc. 2041 Rosecrans Avenue Suite 245 El Segundo, CA 90245 Phone: +1 (310) 414-9849 Email: sofmac@fetch.com Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California. Teaching machine learning (CS-567) as well as an advanced machine learning seminar.

Haym Hirsh was my advisor in my thesis work on Intelligent Information Filtering. I was a member of the Rutgers Machine Learning Research Group, while at Rutgers.

I went to NYU Stern School of Business as a Research Scientist after I graduated, working with Foster Provost.

I am now at Fetch Technologies, Inc..

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Research Interests:

Relational Learning (with a focus on within-network Learning), Machine Learning, Information Filtering/Ranking, Text Classification, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, User Modeling, and web technology and applications.

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Responsibilities:

• Organizer:
  Second Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning, at the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07).
  Third workshop on ROC Analysis in ML, at the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2006.
  Second workshop on ROC Analysis in ML, at the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2005.
  Second ML, IR and UM Workshop at User Modeling 2003.
  Third ML4UM Workshop.
• Program Committee:
  The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP) 2007
  National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAAI) 2006.
  1st, 2nd, and 3rd International Workshop on Web Personalisation, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces (WPRSIUI) 2005-2007.
  The Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2003.
  
• Reviewer:
  Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Intelligent Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Internaional Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), Machine Learning Journal (ML), International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), Decision Support Systems (DSS), International Conference Information Systems (ICIS).